Precious Holding
Shan Goshorn, Cherokee / American, 1957 - 2018
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Southeast
2016
Arches watercolor paper, archival inks, acrylic paint and buckskin; doubleweave
Overall: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 11 in. (8.9 × 14 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Virginia and Preston T. Kelsey 1958 Fund
© Shan Goshorn
2018.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southeast
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on bottom, center, in black ink: Shan / Goshorn
Course History
ANTH 05, Introduction to Archaeology, Nathaniel Kitchel, Summer 2019
NAS 30.19, Indigistory, Gordon Henry, Fall 2019
ARTH 5, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2020
RUSS 7.06, Doing Things with Words, Ainsley Morse, Winter 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-July 15, 2019.
Weaving History into Art: The Enduring Legacy of Shan Goshorn, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 15-April 11, 2021.
Publication History
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 219, ill. plate no. 150.
Susan Neal, Weaving History Into Art: The Enduring Legacy of Shan Goshorn, Tulsa, Oklahoma: Gilcrease Museum, 2020, pp.86-87.
Provenance
The artist; sold to present collection, 2018.
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